## **BETHEL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES (UPC)**
## **TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT**
## **YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **ACHIEVEMENTS**
We believe we are called to work not only within the community but also with the community. Therefore, we are committed to working in partnership with local people, local agencies and with overseas ministries to: -
1. Assess our community’s real needs
2. Identify our church’s ability to respond
3. Find practical ways to engage with the community
4. Develop our church’s potential and capacity to meet needs
5. Build strong partnership with other community groups
6. Deliver sustainable community projects in a professional cost-effective way
Bethel Christian Ministries seeks to worship God and edify the church on a weekly basis though our church services.
Biblical training sessions and spiritual development conferences have been made available to all church members and the local community. This curriculum of training assists people to deepen and develop their faith through learning about Ministry areas, Audio & Sound training, and Worship & Praise sessions. The church administration office greatly assists the needs of the church members, Pastor, and other members of the faith community.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
The church’s main source of generating income is through promoting the donation of tithes and offering in the services. The use of Gift Aid envelopes allowed us to increase our income and gain an additional income. The full details of the account are listed in the Financial Statements.
## **PLANS FOR FTURE PERIODS**
1. Providing increased opportunities for the church members and community to grow and develop in their Christian faith. This will be achieved through implementing house group meetings on specific topics.
2. Promote the benevolent needs of the local community and abroad and highlighting ways in which able people can provide help and relief. Work will include working with other charity organisations in the UK, Africa and Asia, Save the children and British Red Cross.
## **BETHEL CHRISTAIN MINISTRIES ( UPC)**
**TRUSTEES REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
**Charity Number: 1160304**
## **BETHEL CHRISTAIN MINISTRIES ( UPC)**
## **CONTENTS**
||Page|
|---|---|
|**References and administrative details of the charity and its trustees**|3|
|**Statement of Financial Activities**|4
|
|**Balance Sheet**|5|
|**Notes to the Financial Statements**|6-10|
## **BETHEL CHRISTAIN MINISTRIES ( UPC)**
## **REFERENCES AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS OF THE CHARITY AND ITS TRUSTEES. FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|**Trustees**|Miss Angela Denise Anderson|
|---|---|
||Ms Beverley Kellythorn|
||Mr Desmond Wellington|
||Mr Lascelles Augustus Ellis|
|**Charity Registration Number**|1160304|
|**Principal office**|5 Carleton Avenue|
||Wallington|
||SM6 9LW|
|**Registered office**|5 Carleton Avenue|
||Wallington|
||SM6 9LW|
|**Independent Examiner**|Tunji Ogedengbe FCCA|
||36 Daffodil Close|
||Hatfield|
||AL10 9FF|
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## **BETHEL CHRISTAIN MINISTRIES ( UPC)**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVIES (incorporating income and expenditure) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|**Unrestricted Restricted Total**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**2025**
**2025**
**2025**
**Notes**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
3
207,689
-
207,689
Investment
4
-
-
-
**Total Income and Endowmwent**
**207,689**
**-**
**207,689**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
5
Charitable activities
32,654
32,654
Support Cost
33,884
33,884
Governance costs
1,078
1,078
**Total Expenditure**
**67,616**
**-**
**67,616**
Net movement in funds
140,074
-
140,074
-
Total funds brought forward
614,539
614,539
Prior Year Adjustment
-
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
10
**754,612**
**-**
**754,612**|**Total**
**Funds**
**2024**
**£**
206,999
-|
|---|---|
||**206,999**|
||17,155
41,429
1,600|
||**60,184**|
||146,814
-
467,725
-|
||**614,539**|
The Notes on pages 11 to 14 formed part of these financial statements.
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## **BETHEL CHRISTAIN MINISTRIES ( UPC)**
## **Balance Sheet At 31 March 2025**
|**Notes**
**FIXED ASSETS**
**Tangible assets**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Debtors
7
Cash at bank
8
Investment
**CREDITORS:**Amounts falling due within one year
9
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
**CREDITORS:**Amounts falling due after more than one year
**NET ASSETS**
**FUNDS**
10
Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**|**2025**
**£**
**455**
33,500
421,257
300,000|**2025**
**£**
**754,157**
754,157
-
**754,612**
**754,612**
**754,612**|**2024**
**£**
**608**
33,500
281,632
300,000|
|---|---|---|---|
||754,757
600||615,132
1,200|
||-||**613,932**|
||||613,932
-|
||**-**||**614,539**|
|||||
||||**614,539**|
|||||
||||**614,539**|
The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of lhe Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 Mar 2025
- a. For the year ending **31st Dec 2010** the company was entitled to exemption under section 477(2) of the Companies b. The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006. c. The directors acknowledge their responsibility for:
i. ensuring the company keeps accounting records which comply with Section 386; and
ii. preparing accounts which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial year, and of its profit or loss for the financial year, in accordance with the requirements of section 393, and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act relating to accounts, so far as is applicable to the company. d. These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small
The financial statements have bepn prepared in accordance with the provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The financial statements were approved by the Trustees on 3rd November 2025 and signed on their behalf, by
## Mr Lascelles Augustus Ellis
Name of Approving Trustee
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## **BETHEL CHRISTAIN MINISTRIES ( UPC)**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31 March 2025**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Accounting convention**
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008), the Companies Act 2006 and the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice, Accounting and Reporting by Charities.
## **Incoming resources**
All incoming resources are included on the Statement of Financial Activities when the charity is legally entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy.
## **Resources expended**
Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
## **Tangible fixed assets**
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.
Motor vehicles -25% on reducing balance Fixtures and fittings -12.5% straight line Computer Equipment -33.33% straight line
## **Taxation**
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees. Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes. Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
## **2. VOLUNTARY INCOME**
## **3. Donations**
Donations of cash and similar
## **4. Investment Income**
Bank Interest
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2025 2024
£ £
207,689 206,999
207,689 206,999
2025 2024
- -
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**BETHEL CHRISTAIN MINISTRIES ( UPC)**
**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
**Note 9 Tangible fixed assets** _**Please complete this note if the charity has any tangible fixed assets**_
## **9.1 Cost or valuation**
|**Church & Office Equipment**
**Furniture & Fittings**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
At 1st April 2022
1,850 2,479 4,329
Additions
-
Revaluations
-
Disposals
-
Transfers *
-
Balance carried forward
1,850 2,479 4,329
****Basis**
SL or RB
SL or RB
**** Rate**
Balance brought forward
1,624 2,098 3,722
Depreciation charge for year
57 95 152
Impairment provisions
- - -
Revaluations
- - -
Disposals
- - -
Transfers*
- - -
Balance carried forward
1,681 2,193 3,874
Brought forward
226 381 608
Carried forward
170 286 455
**9.2 Accumulated depreciation and impairment provisions**
**9.3 Net book value**|**Church & Office Equipment**
**£**|**Furniture & Fittings**
**£**|**Total**|
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
||1,850|2,479|4,329|
||||-|
||||-|
||||-|
||||-|
||1,850|2,479|4,329|
||
SL or RB|SL or RB||
|||||
|||||
||1,624|2,098|3,722|
||57|95|152|
||-|-|-|
||-|-|-|
||-|-|-|
||-|-|-|
||1,681|2,193|3,874|
|||||
||226|381|608|
||170|286|455|
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## **BETHEL CHRISTAIN MINISTRIES ( UPC)**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued For the year ended 31 March 2025**
## **TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS**
There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Trustees' Expenses**
There were no trustees' expenses paid neither for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **7. Debtors**
|Trade debtors
Loan
**Total debtors**
**8. Cash**
Cash at bank with immediate access
**Total cash**
**9. Creditors: liabilities falling due within one year**
Accruals and deferred income|**2025**
**£**
**-**
33,500
**33,500**
**2025**
**£**
721,257
**721,257**
**2025**
**£**
600
**600**|**2024**
**£**
**-**
33,500|
|---|---|---|
|||**33,500**|
|||**2024**
**£**
581,632|
|||**581,632**|
|||**2024**
**£**
1,200|
|||**1,200**|
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## **BETHEL CHRISTAIN MINISTRIES ( UPC)**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued For the year ended 31 March 2025**
## **MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
During the year the movements in the charity's funds were as follows:
|**MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
||
|---|---|
|During the year the movements in the charity's funds were as follows:
**Unrestricted funds**
Unrestricted funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
**Unrestricted funds**
**Prior Year Adjustment**
**TOTAL FUNDS**|**Net**
**movement in**
**At 01/04/2024**
**funds**
**At 31/03/2025**
£
£
£
614,539
140,074
754,612|
||614,539
140,074
754,612|
||**Incoming**
**Resources Net movement**
**resources**
**expended**
**£**
**£**
£
207,689
67,616
140,074
-|
||207,689
67,616
140,074|
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## **BETHEL CHRISTAIN MINISTRIES ( UPC)**
## **Detailed Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2025**
|**5. Charitable Expenditure**
**Costs incurred directly on specific activities**
Ministry Expenses
Welfare
Baptisam
Gift
Mission
Donation/Gift
Rent and Rates
**Costs incurred on support & administration**
Professional - Accountancy Fees
Staff Costs- Wages and Salaries
Hospitality
Church equipment
Telephone & Internet
Stationery and printing
Motor expense
Training
Youth expense
Office Expense
Travel
Multimedia
Outreach
Conference
Building
Depreciation
Website
**Total expenditure**|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**2025**
**2025**
**_£_**
**_£_**
-
1,649
400
-
4,024
3,250
23,330
**32,654**
1,078
**1,078**
19,200
4,244
315
304
501
172
158
1,400
848
323
1,293
900
3,728
-
152
347
**33,884**
**67,616**|**2024**
**_£_**
1,160
400
200
2,060
2,850
-
10,485|
|---|---|---|
|||**17,155**|
|||1,600|
|||**1,600**|
|||18,800
2,540
-
967
200
-
-
150
193
419
-
16,716
700
541
152
-|
|||**41,378**|
||||
|||**60,134**|
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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** ~~——EEEe~~ **Report to the trustees/ members of[BETHEL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES (UPC)]** ~~FP~~ **On accounts for the year** 31[st] March 2025 **Charity no ended (if any)**[1160304] ~~eeee ee~~ **Set out on page** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) ~~Pt~~ **Respective** The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. **responsibilities of** The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year **trustees and examiner** under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the 1993 Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to:
examine the accounts under section 43 of the 1993 Act, to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 43(7)(b) of the 1993 Act, and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention. **Basis of independent** My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given **examiner’s statement** by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. **Independent** In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention **examiner's statement** (other than that disclosed below *) 1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the 1993 Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 1993 Act
- have not been met ; or
2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
|**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**|**Signed:**_Ogedengbe_
**Date:**3rdNovember 2025
**Name:**Tunji Ogedengbe
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
FCCA
~~ee~~
~~Cn~~
~~a~~|**Signed:**_Ogedengbe_
**Date:**3rdNovember 2025
**Name:**Tunji Ogedengbe
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
FCCA
~~ee~~
~~Cn~~
~~a~~|
|---|---|---|
|**Address:**|**Address:**36 Daffodil Close, Hatfield Hertfordshire AL10 9FF
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